UNITED
NATIONS,
February 2 --
The new Syria
draft of the
UN Security
Council, as
obtained by
Inner City
Press and put online
here,
omits
Paragraph 7(b)
about
"delegation by
the President
of Syria of
his full
authority to
his Deputy."

It can be
analyzed later
this morning:
the Security
Council
meeting to
discuss
the draft has
been moved
from 10 am to
3 pm on
Thursday
(ironically,
elsewhere in
Manhattan at
the Ritz
Carlton there
is a protest
against
Yemen's Ali
Saleh.)

French
Ambassador
Gerard Araud
on his way
into the
Council at 10
am spoke of
putting
the text "in
blue" on
Thursday
night, hoping
for a vote on
Friday.